Column: Connecticut should maintain police at Pequot casino

Monday, January 21, 2013  

"For those of us who do not belong to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, it should be none of our business that tribal officials don't seem to be at all rattled by criminal history or criminal charges.

For example, last week the tribe named as its new chief of staff - in charge of, among other things, its police department - a tribal member who has a substantial criminal history.

Antonio Beltran had some fairly recent run-ins with the law, in 1999 and 2000, including alleged drunken driving and speeding and some other motor vehicles charges related to two hit-and-run accidents in Preston.

But it was his earlier crimes, as a young man, that likely would disqualify him for a management role in most any gambling jurisdiction in the country."

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